Showing posts with label Summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Summer. Show all posts

Friday, 3 April 2015

Apply For TechCrunch’s Paid Summer Internship

Using Gaming To Flip The Script On AutismWe’re looking for college students who love startups and reading TechCrunch to join our team as paid summer interns.
This isn’t your typical internship. As soon as you set up your company email address, TechCrunch will let you write and publish your own stories. Whether it’s a big funding announcement or profiles of the next Y Combinator batch, you’ll be talking to some of the biggest newsmakers in the tech industry and sharing your opinion on one of Silicon Valley’s most influential blogs.
As an intern, you’ll be writing as much as you can. You’ll work on a variety of projects, from blog posts to videos. You’ll have many opportunities to write about the next big startups, but also to write about tech news as it relates to your other interests, whether they’re fashion, sports or politics.
We’re looking for interns who are independent and self-motivated with good news judgement. We need people who write quickly and accurately and who already live and breathe tech news.
As an intern at TechCrunch, I was given more responsibilities than at other media internships and the freedom to pursue my own interests. I often got to write multiple posts a day and attend exciting events in Silicon Valley, from demo days to hackathons at companies like Facebook.
Writers and editors at TechCrunch helped me find stories and helped me grow as a writer with helpful edits and advice. They were supportive of me when I suggested posts related to my interests in politics. But more importantly, they pushed me to also go outside of my comfort zone and find my own voice in my work.
When I got my internship offer last spring, I was beyond excited to start what I knew would be an incredible professional opportunity. At the time, I could not anticipate how great it would be to be part of the TechCrunch team. Aside from the adorable office pets, amazing snacks and Nerf gun fights, I spent ten weeks learning from some of the smartest journalists in San Francisco and gained invaluable mentors.
So if you love tech news and want to join some of the coolest nerds around, send in an application!
Preference will be given to applicants with previous internship experience who exemplify an interest in tech news. Current college juniors and seniors are preferred, but exceptional sophomores will be considered. Interns can work in TechCrunch’s New York or San Francisco offices. The internship runs 10 weeks during the summer, with a flexible start date.

Sunday, 1 March 2015

Samsung Pay Takes On Apple Pay This Summer With LoopPay’s MST Tech

Samsung has a new mobile payment solution it announced today, though it will require a few more months before it arrives on the new Galaxy S6 and S6 edge smartphones this summer. It’s called Samsung Pay, and it uses the magnetic secure transmission (MST) tech that Samsung acquired via its purchase of LoopPay last month, which means the vast majority of U.S. retailers should be able to accept it without any change to their existing hardware or infrastructure.
The Samsung Pay service will also use NFC, meaning it should work with the kinds of terminals required by retailers to offer Apple Pay, but the MST tech means that it can talk even to old-school credit card swipe readers, via tech developed by the Kickstarted Boston-based startup LoopPay, which Samsung acquired in total after a partnership begun near the debut of their crowdfunding campaign.
Samsung also has deals in place with MasterCard and Visa on the payment provider side, and is working on arrangements with American Express, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase, U.S. Bank and others. Based on its ability to work with existing magstripe terminals, Samsung estimates that it could reach up to 30 million merchants worldwide, so long as the payment providers all come on board.
In practice, it’ll work by being integrated into Samsung devices at the system level, letting users add their own existing cards, and then working via a swipe up from the bezel, which launches the Samsung Pay app and lets them choose their payment card option. Then they use the new finger print sensor to authenticate the transaction (which, thanks to the new touch-based fingerprint reader on the GS6, seems clearly borrowed from Apple Pay) and then tap the merchant terminal to complete. It requires a few more steps than Apple Pay, which automatically launches payment and chooses your default card when you’re in proximity of an active terminal, meaning the fingerprint authentication is the only step required by a user.
Samsung Pay’s ability to work with legacy infrastructure should help it maximize its potential reach, however, which means it could have an easier time convincing merchants, leaving it to focus its attention on educating and motivating users about adopting the behavior.
On the security side, Samsung is using KNOX and ARM’s TrustZone data isolation tech for processors to keep payment card information safe, and Samsung Pay uses tokenization to add an additional layer of security on top of standard magnetic card swipes. It’s aiming for a summer launch, with U.S. and Korea pegged as the launch countries, with expansion to Europe and China planned after that.

Friday, 20 February 2015

Celebrate This Terrible Winter With The Highlights Of Amazon’s Summer Preview

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